Posted on 06/04/2019 4:11:19 PM PDT by Texan4Life
The former school resource officer widely branded as a coward for failing to intervene during the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting has been arrested for failing to act during the massacre.
Scot Peterson, 56, was arrested Tuesday and charged with seven counts of neglect of a child, three counts of culpable negligence, and one count of perjury, according to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
Florida Department of Law Enforcement Commissioner Rick Swearingen said Peterson did “absolutely nothing” to stop the shooting, which killed 17 and injured 17 others.
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The inaction long preceded that tragic day.
The school super and sheriff should be in jail for 17 counts of manslaughter.
Take the pensions away from these worthless bags of sh!t
From my recollection, Hoggy boy defended this guy, saying he understood why he was afraid of a loud assault rifle.
I’m very intrigued by the perjury charge.
When is the state of Florida going to arrest and charge the corrupt and equally culpable ‘RAT former sheriff, Scott Israel?
Complete dereliction of duty.....resulting in death of innocents.... roward county is a pit of blue slime....
Amazing that he has been charged.
Maybe the Sheriff sees some advantage to it?
Not that he shouldn’t be charged.
I am amazed that he has been.
Trump effect?
Oh yeah.... and that’s a whole nuther ball of wax!
While I certainly understand the desire to make this guy pay for his failure to act, charging a police officer with a crime for failure act really gives me pause. Should a police officer put himself in harms way to save innocent people? Sure, the public expects it and most police courageously do it willingly. But to charge them if they don’t? How many police radio for backup before they go into a dangerous situation? Will they be required to charge in now on their own? Once again, I’m not making excuses for Peterson but if he is convicted, I see all kinds of bad unintended consequences coming from the decision.
I may be in the minority here, but I don’t think he qualifies as a care giver as contemplated by the statute. On that basis, I’d be a “not guilty” on this charge.
A better criminal complaint would be for a 18 U.S. 241/242 (Civil Rights) violation; states have concurrent jurisdiction. He had a clear duty to act to prevent the loss of life and injury; and, failed to do so. He was deliberately indifferent to the civil rights of those killed and wounded.
It’s a bit like a cop watching a group of KKK members hanging a black man and doing nothing to stop it.
https://www.insidesources.com/police-not-protect-supreme-court-side/
I’ll be surprised if he pays much of a penalty for his incompetence. Do we know what “the rules of engagement” were? Can you make a cop responsible for kids that are not his own’s safety? What about Sheriff Israel? What is his culpability?
Actually I agree with you.
There is no constituional duty to protect, only a duty to enforce the law.
An outgunned and outmanned officer does not have a duty to die.
The keyboard cowboys are having a big night tonite.
And the Obama shitcago buddy school super who instituted the no minorities in trouble program.
“A better criminal complaint would be for a 18 U.S. 241/242 (Civil Rights) violation; “
In Detroit many years ago they used this law to go after 2 police officers who were acquitted in the death of a black guy. It reeked of double jeopardy but to keep the city from burning they did it and the cops served some pretty long sentences.
I don’t think it was double jeopardy because there are many times state or local prosecutors overcharge a crime without lesser included offenses because they know only charging the biggest crime will result in a not guilty verdict.
With the recent shootings where some kids tackled and a woman threw herself in front of her Rabbi makes this worm a sorry excuse for a human being.
Sounds like somebody decided to keep this guy in a place they can control what he has to say, and to who.
Long time coming?
This butthead should have been charged by the first deputies that arrived on the scene and found him soiling his depends.
Along about now he should be worried about what the jury was going to give him.
With this timeline, all the kids involved (the survivors) will be in grad school before the jury is selected.
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